Information on protests of the Vietnam War, the 26th Amendment which lowered the voting age to 18 years, Richard Nixon's (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)(37th President of the United States of America) career-ending scandal and Mark Spiz (born February 10, 1950) winning 7 gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympic games.

Information on new special effects technologies in movies, multipart television movies (miniseries like Roots), the space shuttle, Camp David, Jimmy Carter (born October 1, 1924), Anwar Sadat (25 December 1918 - 6 October 1981) and the video game Pong (an electronic version of Ping-Pong).